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...Navy recommissioned four more destroyers and the carriers Princeton and Monterey from its mothball fleet, began reconditioning the 45,000-ton battleship New Jersey, requisitioned as a transport the unfinished luxury liner United States (see BUSINESS), the largest ever laid down...
Oxcarts & Women. The Korean Red army fights and travels light. For basic rations, each soldier gets a packet of rice, seaweed, biscuits, sugar, salt, and two or three cigarettes. The Reds supplement this by foraging. Like the Russian army, they live off the land, transport their supplies on everything from trucks and new Russian jeeps, to oxcarts and bundles carried on the backs of old women...
...crop was short because floods during the last three months had drowned some 4,000,000 sheep, disrupted transport of the clip to the market. When Auctioneer J. L. Brassil asked for bids on a lot of grease wool (i.e., raw wool) that would have brought 91? a Ib. only two months ago, a Frenchman quickly offered $1.12, lost out to a Briton who got it for $1.32. Said Auctioneer Brassil: "Never did I dream of such prices . . ." The average: 94?, v. 60? last season...
...motor, train and plane (including a special once-a-day turbojet transport which made it from London in 90 minutes), the first wave of a record crowd of 150,000 poured into Edinburgh. American collegians in crew cuts and seersuckers, arty Frenchmen wearing beards and corduroys, sturdy Scandinavians in hiking boots and shorts, grey-haired elders with guidebooks in hand thronged broad, flag-lined Princes and George Streets, puffed up Castle Hill, or jammed into pubs where Scotch was plentiful at 63? a double shot...
...Norwegian Parliament convened to clear things up, President Truman came to the rescue, releasing the U.S. government ship S. S. Ballou to transport the stranded students to Europe...